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This reel is working on your path or face with a meter stick.

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So here I've got a meter stick or yard stick and I can use either side of it.

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But basically what I have is three T's.

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One in the middle and two on the sides you can put them on either end.

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And the whole goal here is to create a vertical line.

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When I'm practicing at home and working on this concept, I will typically

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just go to the corner of a wall and practice there.

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So if the club travels in a straight plane, then what will happen is the club

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will come slightly up and slightly in.

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You can see here there's more space between the toe of the club and the yard stick

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or meter stick.

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If I brought it back, dead straight, it would go a little bit more like this where it

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would be up straight above the edge of the meter stick there.

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So my goal is to have the putter just arc in slightly and then just arc in slightly

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on the way through.

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I can also use this to look at putter face rotation.

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So if I tend to spin the putter face open or I tend to keep it square almost closed,

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this will give me a little visual reference.

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So I want to bring the putter slightly inside and the putter face will be open just slightly.

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I would say that more golfers air on having too much face rotation rather than too

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little, but then they compensate by having more of an outward path.

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So if I struggle with the path, then what I'll do is I will place an object that's inside

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so let's put it about where the heel of your putter is and about a foot maybe 14 inches

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or so behind the ball.

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So it's going to give me something to swing back towards but the putter is going to swing

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just above it.

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So now as I release through, I don't think I aim this perfectly but I got it set up good

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for the camera.

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So I'm using the the the balls with the line on it so I can see how well I'm rolling

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it end over in.

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Oftentimes if I bring it back more straight, you'll see I get a little bit of wobble

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to the line because I had more of a cut stroke on the way through.

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If we slowed that down, you would see that it came slightly across this way.

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So now if I bring it more back towards the ball, you'll see that the ball rolls a little

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bit better and over then.

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So this is a great little visualization for dialing in the path either on the way back

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or on the way through.

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This can be really good just diagnostic if you have somebody shoot from down the line.

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You can see get a really good rough sense of your path.

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You can also look at the face control.

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If you do that, have a buddy hold it straight over the putter right here and then you

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can look for how much is that face rotating on both directions.

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The most common pattern would be a little bit straight back and open and then a little

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bit through and closing kind of quickly.

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So that can cause all kinds of start line problems which then makes it hard for you to

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commit to reading and green and irrespective of speed.

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It's hard to make a lot of putts.

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If you can't start the ball online, roll it end over end.

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It makes it really hard to then move on to those other skills of green reading and speed

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control which ultimately should be a little bit more important.

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So use a station like this, get the ball rolling end over the end from good path and face

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awareness and then you can work on the two harder skills.

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The more important ones for being in a lead level putter.